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Sept. 22-28: FRONT LINES; U.S. TERROR UPDATE

Federal prosecutors in Buffalo asked a magistrate to deny bail to six Yemeni-American men accused of attending a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan in the summer of 2001.

The case broke new legal ground, with the government arguing that the men provided material support to Al Qaeda simply by attending the camp.

Meanwhile, government prosecutors in Virginia said they could show a link between Zacarias Moussaoui and one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11. In a pretrial motion, they said a telephone number found at the crash site matched a number called by Mr. Moussaoui before the terror attacks.

In Washington, officials said Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, the Egyptian immigrant who killed two people at Los Angeles International Airport last July, asked for political asylum in the mid-1990's on the grounds that he had been falsely labeled an Islamic militant and faced persecution. Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered immigration agents to search pending asylum cases for applicants who made similar claims. Susan Sachs